Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
82514
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/02/2004
Date of Amendment
24/02/2004
Name of Property
Dovecote at Nanteos
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Llanfarian
Town
Aberystwyth
Locality
Rhydyfelin
Easting
262035
Northing
278664
Street Side
Location
Situated immediately W of the stable block behind the mansion at Nanteos.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Dovecote possibly of 1816, possibly of c1830. The dovecote on 1819 estate map was E of old stables, possibly demolished for the new ones. Marked on estate map of c1830-35. In May 1816 plans for a Dove House were drawn by a local architect for a fee of £1, and Morris Jones, mason, conducted work on a 'pigeon house' in July 1816. There are references to an earlier pigeon house in 1795. The structure is known from photographs to have had a shallow-domed slate roof in 3 tiers.
Exterior
Circular pigeon roost tower in coursed rubble, formerly with a domed slate roof with 2 steps, now collapsed. Two storeys externally, with opening to E, formerly door, with brick voussoirs to flat head and flat-headed opening above possibly originally with brick head, now lost.
Interior
Lined in brick with bands of square dove-holes above projecting shelves, also in red brick.
Reason for designation
Included despite condition as a surviving estate dovecote, and for group value with the adjoining buildings.
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